[Data-modeling] English Words

[Arthur van Hoff]

Sorry, but you already lost me. I am neither a native English speaker, nor a
linguist. Examples would help.

We use the wordnet data to find the stems of words with synonyms, and
descriptions.
Then we use an English lexicons and Wiktionary to find derivations and
additional stems.
It is not perfect, but it is a start.

On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 5:00 PM, Jeff Prucher <jeff at metaweb.com> wrote:

>  One of the things that's prevented anyone from tackling this yet is the
> issue of polysemy. WordNet handles this by having separate entities for each
> sense, which might be very cumbersome in Freebase.  Each sense could be a
> CVT, but if you're linking synonyms, you have to be linking two CVTs (that
> is, a sense of a word is only synonymous with a sense of another word),
> which is not easily done in the client (although it can be done via MQL).
>
> Talking of senses opens another issue -- whose breakdown do you use?
> Different dictionaries break down senses differently (lumping vs. splitting
> is an age-old issue in lexicography). Would there be a need to represent
> sense breakdowns by multiple authorities?
>
> Jeff
>
>  ------------------------------
> *From:* data-modeling-bounces at freebase.com [mailto:
> data-modeling-bounces at freebase.com] *On Behalf Of *Arthur van Hoff
> *Sent:* Wednesday, May 06, 2009 1:30 PM
> *To:* data-modeling at freebase.com
> *Subject:* [Data-modeling] English Words
>
> Hi,
>
> Has anyone thought about loading English (and other language) words into
> Freebase?
> We are currently using WordNet and Wiktionary data, but it would be really
> convenient if this was available Freebase.
> For each word we need the language, POS (noun, verb, adverb, adjective),
> synonyms, sample usage, translations, etc.
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Arthur van Hoff
> arthur.van.hoff at gmail.com
> 650-283-0842
>
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